Daniel Golding, vice president and research director of Tier 1, will deliver an address titled "Hosting Transformation: 2008 and Beyond". The presentation will take a hard look at the state of the managed hosting industry and explore how managed hosting will drive into the enterprise mainstream.

The industry-leadership keynote will be delivered by Michael van Dijken, lead marketing manager for hosting solutions - communications sector at Microsoft, who will focus on Microsoft's view of managed hosting and applications.

The firm also launched a social networking Web site that will provide attendees with the ability to connect with other attendees before, during and after the summit.

Tier 1 Research contributing analyst Andy Schroepfer, recently delivered the keynote at Layered Technologies' second annual partner event, LT Pact 2007.